Put A Tiger in your Mac

[adderslj]

From a press release that's just hit my in-box:

CUPERTINO, California— May 4, 2004— Apple® today announced that Steve Jobs will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote on Monday, June 28, 2004, beginning at 10:00 a.m. at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year's keynote will include a preview of “Tiger,” the next major release of Mac® OS X.

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[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

Rowr!

[rigistrade.livejournal.com]

Adam,
Since you've been using Macs for ages now (or so it seems), what sort of Mac would you recommed to me (who's on a student budget) and need it for Word (or any writing software usable for both freelance work and scriptwriting), Photoshop, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver?

[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

I know you addressed your question to Adam, but I'd suggest an eMac (http://www.apple.com/emac) if you don't need to be portable. They're great machines. I know many happy users.

They also just dropped the entry level edu price on eMacs to £516 (from over £600).

[adders.livejournal.com]

Fraser's spot on. My wife's ex-faltmate has just bought herself an eMac and they're lovely little machines at a great price. If you need portability, look at the 12" iBook. Bruce has just bought one of those...

[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

If it was my money, I'd take the Combo Drive model and add the 512Mb RAM and 80Gb hard disk upgrades for a round total of exactly £600.

I have a Superdrive on my PowerBook, and I think I've used it exactly three times in one year.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Not Mac related (as such) but if you're registered as a student in the UK, both Macromedia and Microsoft offer massive student discounts - the Microsoft deal is called Microsoft Select and your university computer centre should be able to sort you out. Same for Macromedia.

(I'm assuming you're in the UK and at a University - sorry if that's not the case.)

[adders.livejournal.com]

Good point.

The Apple Store for education should offer decent discounts. Lorna used it quite extensively during her PhD.

[ex-lifeofbri692.livejournal.com]